Worst Wedding Stories...and GO

We went to a wedding November 2015 and everyone got sick from the food. Come to find out, the venue had a lawsuit against them for not prepping food correctly and giving foodborne illnesses at multiple events.

I have seen a drunken bridesmaid get lifted up and sat on a layer of cake before. I was working for the caterer and didn't quite know what to say.

I went to a wedding where the ceremony started about thirty minutes late. It was outside in October and freezing. After the ceremony finally happened, there was a two hour break for them to go get pictures (not considering this a cocktail hour because there was no booze). The reception portion ended up starting about an hour late and I was starving! Finally my friend who was the MOH told the caterers to bring out the food. They had TWO trays of bite-sized wraps that they got from Costco and didn't even bother to put on nicer plates. The trays of food were gone in about five minutes. After that, they announced that dessert (aka their wedding cake) wouldn't be cut and served until 10:30 PM.

All of this was a Sunday wedding so FH and I just left to get dinner and went home.

I flew cross country to be in my friend's roaring 20s, New Years Day wedding.

I knew we would need to set up the hall she rented, so no problem. What I didn't know is we also had to clear the space of furniture before setting up. She had no real vision or plan for setting up. Only three of us did the work for a good 6 hours before the men showed up. They were late because they had the bachelor party the night before. They didn't start helping for another 3 or so hours. I left around 10pm the night before the wedding because I was fuming.

Next day I show up early to help finish set up. There is one hair person and one MUA. Hair was no big deal for me, I have a bob... I'm not doing much with it anyway. But I don't wear make-up day to day, let alone for an event. I don't even own concealer or foundation or anything. I specifically said I would need help from MUA, but she had to keep helping the hair stylist who was overwhelmed.

The invites had the wrong address on them, so the photographer was about 2 hours late, and then he was making us rush. So, I had a meltdown when he said he needed BMs in 5 minutes and I still didn't have make up or know how to do it myself.

We get outside, and it is freezing and we are in flapper dresses. But pictures had to be outdoors.

Wedding went well. Reception was fun. A lot of guests didn't show, guessing they either got lost or didn't want to do a second party after NYE.

I felt overworked and miserable and with the strong desire to never be a BM again.

Cash Bar

Open bar suddenly turned cash bar halfway through... one where the groom ended up on the table with his pants off... good times

I was a personal attendant for a bride. She had me and another friend do all of her flowers. She didn't order them to be delivered until the night before the wedding, so we got them done but only got 3 hours of sleep. We were not invited to her rehearsal dinner because we weren't "actual" bridal party members. When we showed up with them, her family assumed we were just vendors and gave us other tasks to do. Later that night, I had to hold her dress up for her while she ummm... had intestinal issues. At the end of the night, I went to leave because I was exhausted. She asked why I wasn't going to stay to help clean up. I never got a verbal thank you for the flowers or a thank you card for the flowers or the gift we bought.

I was in a wedding where the bride decided to do a dollar dance (this was not a cultural thing, she and her husband are American for generations going back). It was awkward because the bride had a line of about 10 people the whole dance and her husband had no one lining up to dance with him. But the most awkward part was when I invited people back to my place for an after party and the groom sat on my floor and counted all the money. WTF!

I also have a dollar dance story... almost no one knew what that was and only 2 or 3 people went up there. The song they chose? "Girls, Girls, Girls" by Motley Crue. Because, you know, the bride and groom met at a strip club.

Went to a wedding that was 2.5 hours away. The ceremony was beautiful but there was a 3 hour gap. So between 3:30-6:30 we were trying to keep ourselves entertained. Cocktail hour started at 7 and it was outside. Normally I wouldn't complain about an outdoor cocktail hour but it was the hottest day in July and a lot of people were hungry. My head hurt from not eating plus the 90 something degree weather with the humidity did not help. Dinner wasn't served until 8:30pm. But once we had our food my FSILs and I thought we would go dancing. I lasted about 45 minutes. My feet were so swollen I couldn't get them back in my shoes. But for the most part the rest of the reception went pretty well. Until it was time to go. I was so tired and my feet hurt so bad by the end of the night. It hurt to even walk barefoot. We left for the wedding at 11am to make sure we got there on time to account for traffic. We didn't get back home until 2am the next day.

Someone trading toilet paper for alcohol.

@AshMar - LOL. I could not handle that post.......

@Jessica M lmao. Me either. I got to read and comment toward the very end. Wow! I think that thread deff has to be at the top of my list. Definitely up there with crockpot weenies.

@summer 2017 omg I just spit my drink across the room I'm dyingggg. You beat me!

My stepmom got super drunk at my brothers wedding, she did a split on the dance floor.

Bride and groom got embarrassingly drunk, it was more of a cocktail reception and there was not enough appetizers, MOH was giving lap dances to most of the guys at the party in front of kids. Worst wedding I've been to.

Oooh i have another one. the wedding coordinator at the venue yelled down from a balcony to the terrace where the reception was happening to tell the officiant to tell everyone to sit WHILE THE CEREMONY WAS HAPPENING. i just felt so so bad for the couple, it was incredibly rude of the coordinator. at this same wedding she told a few guests to hand out water to other guests who were arriving (most of us were the dates of the groomsmen) and she assigned one guest to tell all the other guests to have a seat. i felt so bad for the girl because guests were giving her dirty looks. this was a pretty expensive venue too and she was giving out orders to guests left and right.

Cash bar, 4 hour gap, crockpot of dip for cocktail hour (where you had to pay)

FH tells the story of his best friend's wedding, where they were going to do a sparkler sendoff. The bride spent so long fiddling with her cape that the sparklers all burned out and someone burned their hand.